Here’s a picture from the Kaiser Family Foundation from late last year, showing what people want done to improve the US healthcare system:
Plenty of work to do!
Regular followers of my blog probably realize by now that I am a big fan of Sarah Kliff , at the Washington Post, who does a great job of reporting on the many ups and downs of Obamacare. Here is a video Sarah just put together, explaining the health insurance exchanges which go “live” today,…
One reason our healthcare system in the United States is so messed up is that so few Americans understand much about it. For that reason, their attitudes towards various healthcare reform proposals veer left and right depending on how they are asked for their opinions. Here’s great evidence of that phenomenon, as reported by the…
Shutterstock If you experience a heart attack, you are probably going to need to take pills to prevent another such attack. People who take beta blockers, aspirin, or cholesterol pills after heart attacks are less likely to experience a second such attack. (Note: Don’t take any of these pills until you have spoken to your…
In the old days, blockbuster drugs were moderately expensive pills taken by hundreds of thousands of patients. Think blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes pills. But today, many blockbusters are designed to target much less common diseases, illnesses like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis or even specific subcategories of cancer. These medications have become blockbusters not…
“Contracts With Patients in Clinical Practice” – The Lancet
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